Canned cktail 'Gay Water' aims to sh on Bud Light's mistak

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• CANNED CKTAIL ‘GAY WATER’ AIMS TO SH ON BUD LIGHT’S DYLAN MULVANEY DISASTER
• EXPLORG GAY ENTREPRENRSHIP MATTERS
• GAY WATER, A NEW NNED CKTAIL, WANTS TO BE THE ANTI-BUD LIGHT
• GAY

CANNED CKTAIL ‘GAY WATER’ AIMS TO SH ON BUD LIGHT’S DYLAN MULVANEY DISASTER

In US, a recent study shows lbian make more money than straight people whereas gay men actually earn ls than straight men. Then October of last year, Cook beme the first CEO of a Fortune 500 pany to acknowledge he’s gay.

As an openly gay advote of LGBT , Thiel has ntributed to the Amerin Foundatn for Equal Rights and Top 50 Richt Indians 2020: A prehensive listIndia is home to some sanely wealthy fai and dividuals known across theglobe. Born Ireland, he has prr worked for numero posn for Irish Airl, Aer has been an open gay throughout his whole life and has been a relatnship wh Shane Lloyd sce 1999.

Through his philanthropic ntributns, he has given lns to the Universy of California, Lln Center, Columbia Bs School, Yale Universy, and the Gay Men’s Health Crisis. An entreprenr lnched a nned cktail this week lled “Gay Water” that’s aimed at LGBTQ drkers — and said he’s lookg to palize on Bud Light’s mistak.

EXPLORG GAY ENTREPRENRSHIP MATTERS

But “Gay Water” — which adopts a moniker the gay muny has long given to the simple vodka and soda cktail — has been spired by the dtup to bee even bolr about the dience ’s targetg, founr and CEO Spencer Hodson told The Post. Gay Water — a nned cktail brand that plays on the gay muny’s lloquialism for the vodka-and-soda mixed drk — lnched on Wednday and promis to unrstand s dience better than Bud Light. The 30-year-old Hodson said he is g suggtive — albe playful — msagg and imagery Gay Water’s social media and webse, cludg a provotive nod to the 12-ounce n’s 6.

“Our missn is to -stigmatize the word ‘gay’ and start to create reprentatn spac that tradnally don’t have queer-owned products, let alone products wh the word ‘gay’ their tle, ” Hodson told The Post.

“When was the last time you saw the word gay at a rtrant, bar, liquor store, or grocery store? The word ‘gay’ origally was fed as happy, and we’re hopg to remd folks of that by beg prent, ” he add.

GAY WATER, A NEW NNED CKTAIL, WANTS TO BE THE ANTI-BUD LIGHT

Founr Spencer Hodson, a gay man, says the brand is about reclaimg the word “gay” as a word that “jt means happy. Gay Water’s brandg is full of playful, suggtive msagg.

“Part of the pot of lnchg outsi of Pri month is to rerce the msage that Gay Water is here to make the LGBTQ+ muny more visible 365 days a year, not jt a sgle month, ” he said. We challenge this bias when g a genred perspective to pare the entreprenrial activy of homosexuals and heterosexuals. Explorg gay entreprenrship matters.

As homosexualy is stereotypilly associated wh ntradictory enactments of genr which n elic social hostily, has been suggted that gays and lbians might nsir entreprenrship as a refuge om discrimatn wh employment. Yet, this argument might be unrmed by the ntemporary cle homophobia and also, challeng to the notn that gays and lbians nfirm to ntradictory genr stereotyp. Our null hypothis suggted there would be no differenc entreprenrial activy patterns between homosexuals and heterosexuals, wh the ntradictory hypothis beg that male and female homosexuals may be more likely to select to self-employment as a refuge om employment discrimatn and so, are more likely to be entreprenrially active than heterosexuals.

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We also regnise mediatg fluenc upon entreprenrial activy by analysg if gay entreprenrs favour specific sectors [pk ghettos] or if lotn is fluential providg a more nducive ntext for entreprenrship.

Usg a range of statistil techniqu to tt hypoth relatg the likelihood of gays and lbians beg over-reprented as entreprenrs, and more likely to be favour specific sectors and certa lotns, we found that lbians are slightly more likely than heterosexual women to be entreprenrs, but gay men are ls likely. Th, we found no support for arguments that homosexuals may e entreprenrship as a refuge om discrimatn. This broad headle may hi important nuanc around issu of tersectnaly, whereby elements such as race and ethnicy tersect wh sexual preference and also sector and lotn, as homosexuals may seek spac where they are ls likely to experience homophobic discrimatn.